Instincts

Examples

• He knew he should have to go slowly, and the instincts of his race fitted him to suffer rebuffs and put up with delays. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• What is it but the worst and last form of intellectualism, this love of yours for passion and the animal instincts? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Doesn't it destroy all our spontaneity, all our instincts? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She constantly evinced these nice perceptions and delicate instincts. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The idea of property arises out of the combative instincts of the species. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable _bête fauve_ my powers would revel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All my medical instincts rose up against that laugh. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• If left to himself his instincts would have been either to return to King's Pyland or go over to Mapleton. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• No donkeys ever existed that were as hard to navigate as these, I think, or that had so many vile, exasperating instincts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You know what woman's instincts are. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had succeeded in stealing the government of his country, and made a change in its form against the wishes and instincts of his people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Ants, however, work by inherited instincts and by inherited organs or tools, while man works by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It examines the instincts that serve so wonderfully the survival of var ious species of insects. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Why should our dwelling place be so lovely, and why should the instincts of nature minister pleasurable sensations? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Platonism is a very refined and beautiful expression of our natural instincts, it embodies conscience and utters our inmost hopes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My legal instincts got the better of me, and I even tried to bargain. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The mere hearing of those two words stung me with a jealous despair that was poison to my higher and better instincts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the difficulty is not nearly so great as at first appears: all this beautiful work can be shown, I think, to follow from a few simple instincts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is rooted more strongly in our instincts than in our reason. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This is generally, but erroneously attributed to vitiated instincts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is nonsense for historians to write of the political instincts of the Romans or Carthaginians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He gratified the conservative instincts of the priests by packing off the local gods back to their ancestral temples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I can only assert that instincts certainly do vary--for instance, the migratory instinct, both in extent and direction, and in its total loss. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• For modern psychology emphasizes the radical importance of primitive unlearned instincts of exploring, experimentation, and trying on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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